Tire-chain holder



a. N. PENNINGTON.

TIRE CHAIN HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED 050.21. 1918.

1,333,184; Patented Mar. 9,1920. I

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ATTORNEV GEORGE N. rnNNrNeroNpor MILLvInLn; PENNSYLVANIA.

Application filed December 21,1918. serial No. 2e7,7.9e.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE N. PENNING- TON, a citizen of the United States,residing at Millville, in the county of Columbia and State of Pennsylvania; have invented certain new and useful Improvements in The Chain Holders, of which thefollowing is a. specification.

This invention relates to resilient tires,

and more especially to anti-skid chains for temporary attachment thereover when the roads are slippery; and the object of the same is to produce a device for holding the well-known tire chains on the wheels.

Another object is to produce a tire chain holder of this character which may be applied to the cap nut on most any wheel whose hub is so equipped, thus producing a tire chain holder Which is capable of use on a wide variety of cars.

The following specification setsforth the preferred manner of carrying out my invention, reference being made to the drawings, wherein Figure 1 is an elevation of the wheel hub with this attachment applied,

Fig. 2 is a vertical section through the cap nut of said wheel hub.

" In the drawings the letter H designates the hub of a wheel. from which radiates spokes S as usual, and Cis a hollow'or cap nut su'h as is commonly screwed onto the outer end of a hub over the axle spindle and nut to rotect the latter, from dirt and moisture. he tire chain maybe of any conventional form and it is therefore. not deemed necessary to illustrate the same.

' The purposeof the present invention is to V a bolt which is passed through a hole in the provide means for holding the tire chain in place. even though its ends should become detached from each other. 1 p

In the drawings the numeral 1 designates center of the outer end of the cap nut and held therein by means of two ,nuts 2 andB so disposed on the shank of the bolt that its headshall project bevondthe outermost nut 2. The numeral 4 designates a plate or disk provided with a key-hole opening 5. and pivoted at 6 to this disk is a catch 7 having at one end a handleand at the other end a hook 8 adapted to pass across the small end of the key-hole opening 5 when this catch is swung onits pivot. The disk is also pro- Specification of Letters Patent.

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vided near its periphery with a plurality of holes 9 into each of which is fastened the inner end of a coiled spring 10, and the outer end of the spring carries a snap hook l1 or similar device for attachment to the tire chain which is not shown.

In use, the large end of the key-hole opening is slipped over the head of the bolt 1 and the disk 4 moved so that the bolt passes into the small end of this opening; then the catch 7 is swung on its pivot so that its hook engages over the shank of the bolt and the parts are connected as shown in the drawings. Now the snap hooks are taken in hand and moved radially outward fromythe 1 disk so as to put the helical springs 10 un v der tension and the snap hooks engaged at equi-distant points with the tire chain in a manner which willfbe clear. The tendency of the springs 10' is to draw said chain at these points toward the center, and there "fore the chain is held upon the tire and upon the wheel and slackn ess taken up thereby. It will be obvious that the bolt 1 with its nuts 2 and 8 may be tapped into .or fastened through the outer end of any ordinary cap nut C with which the hub is equippedand therefore my device becomes an atta'hment which may be applied to automobiles of a wide Variety of makes. r 1 The foregolng description and the drawings have reference to what may be considered the preferred, or approved form of my invention. It is to be understood that I may make such changes in construction and ar-' rangement and combinationof partspmaterials, dimensions, et cetera, asmay prove exp pedient and fall within the scope of the appended (laims.

Havin'x thus fully described my invention, What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent. is v 1. In a tire chain holder/the comb n tion with a disk provided with a key-hole opening, a catch pivoted to said disk andhaving one end hooked and adapted to swing across the small end of saidopen-ing, and a series of radial springs connected at their inner ends with said disk and having means at their outer ends for attach ent to a tire chain; of a cap nut a headed bolt for'atta'hmerit to the axis of the cap nut andlreceiv able through said opening.

2. In a tire chain holder, the combination with a-Vdis Pr v ded h k y- 911 1 ing, a catch pivoted to said disk and having one end hooked and adapted to swing across the smail end of said opening, 'and'a series of radial springs connected at their inner ends with said disk and having means attheirouter ends for attachment to the tire chain; ofa bolt} having ahead of a 'size toi pass through the larger endof saidkeyrhole '10 opening, its shank adapted for passing In testimonyl-rwhereofsI affix my signature 1 in presence of twowitnesses.

GEORGE N. PENNINGTON.

Witnesses: I

CHAS. R. NAGLE, J. W. HID LAY; 

